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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
In reaction to people who are confused, that this is not a finished product, I have added a note saying "(Not usable for most people yet!)" at the beginning. The summary at the beginning did not make that clear before. https:&#x2
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
> A (nearly) mainline kernel running on the Nexus 7 https://lwn.net/Articles/680109/ If there are enough helping hands, we could do this as a community. The bootstrap program, pmbootstrap, is a working base c
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
The ability to choose between multiple desktops does not mean, that each desktop itself is inconsistent. For example, you have the consistent Apple interface. And you have the consistent Android interface. If the user could choose between b
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
They also told me on reddit, that it is probably not such a good idea to buy a cheap battery for a device, that has a battery that is not meant to be removed, because the resulting cheap quality may make your phone go up in flames. Anyway,
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Wait, I did not say that it needs to be compatible with anything. Just recreating the top bar, that you can drag down to connect to your Wi-Fi etc. and the three buttons at the bottom working in a similar way would make it very easy to migr
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
I agree with the "interface at least as good as stock Android" part. I wouldn't even mind if someone re-created the Android UI with native GNU/Linux libraries instead of the ones from Android. As long as the user choose
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
There's KDE Kirigami, which will create programs that run on GNU/Linux/Android/iPhone from what I understand. But I have not tried it myself yet: https://dot.kde.org/2017/01/02/kde-releases
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
> Why is "phone interface" buried down at the end of the page under "future goals"? Well, right now there is no phone interface available yet, and that is why it is a future goal (which does not necessarily mean, that
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
In most cases, you can still replace the battery. It just isn't that easy.
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
There are enough people around the world, who can not even afford a smartphone but would like to have one if they could. It had Wi-Fi already, you could write messages make phone calls, play some casual games, read e-books, listen to music.
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Not yet, it is in a pretty early state: > Most drivers don't work so you can't make phone calls or use the WiFi. https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS/#prototype EDIT: SMS also do not work
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
As it says in the article, the project is no-where complete in a sense where you can just use it as your day to day smartphone OS, so it does not "fix" this yet. The project has just started, but there is a solid base with "p
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
> There is one small fallacy in the decade old PC versus the decade old smarphone comparison: PCs are not status symbols but smartphones are and fashion is a huge component in why smartphones are replaced. Think about Apple's Macboo
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
As I see it, project treble will improve the update process, but not completely resolve the endless forking. You will still have the "vendor implementation", which is different for every device. It will contain at least the kernel
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PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones(ollieparanoid.github.io)
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